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Bensalem residents say sewage leak from nearby apt. complex has created unhealthy living conditions

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BENSALEM, Pa. - Residents in a Bucks County neighborhood are fed up over a foul odor. They say the smell is sickening and they say their health could be at risk.

It all reportedly started with a sewage spill."I don’t think anybody likes to live in a place like that, where you smell a smell and the kids ask, ‘What’s that smell?’" Heidy Biac commented."From the sewer from feces, it backed up into our storm drains.

The storm drains across the street are all corroded and feces come up out of the sewer. It comes out of the storm drains. Now it’s in our storm sewers," Colleen Slaweski said.MORE HEADLINES:Residents who live on Hansell Drive, in Bensalem, are fed up with the sewage smell in their neighborhood.

A few weeks ago, a sewage line carrying waste from a sprawling apartment complex nearby ruptured and leaked from storm drains in a field near their properties."It’s a private line that goes through there and we react immediately because of the problems here, in Bensalem," Bensalem mayor, Joe Digirolamo, said.The dedicated sewer line was on private property and owned by Bucks Meadow Apartments.

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